EMPIRE RADIO

Hokitika Guardian, 14 December 1932, Page 5

EMPIRE RADIO

SIR THOS. WILFORD IMPRESSED. DAVENTRY STATION VISITED. (United Press Association—By Flectrio Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, December 13. So impressed was Sir T. M. Wilford on the occasion of a press inspection of Daventry wireless station, when the methods of Empire broadcasting were explained, that he informed the Controller, Admiral Sir Charles Carpendale, that the Corporation need not fear lack of assistance from the Dominions and Colonies, provided the experiment were successful. Sir C. Carpendal.n had been explaining there was nothing in sight to recoup the Corporation from overseas, though it, was 'hoped a solution would accompany suc(<v», whether as a Dominions and Colonial Office grant or as overseas subscriptions or both. Tic added that recepthm in v «v 'Zealand were good, and in Australia fair. Australia’s system was so designed that aerial and reflector were interchangeable. enabling the beam to he radiated either way round the great , irrle, ereording t 0 atmospheric conditions.’ Thev wove at, present, us : nrr the vest hut Fo re- option mirrht 1 " hotter by tlm extern route. Awtrnlin was n „„. t-m +h ; ’ ,4 v-two metre Tr ’di r| n zone 'excellent,lv. The Corporation envisaged a regular exchange of programmes between England and the overseas.